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BY AL RIGGS MAR. 06, 2019 6:30 A.M. When I messaged Patrick Haggerty on Facebook to ask if he had an opening slot for his March 13 Lavender Country show at The Pinhook, he wrote back saying the slots had been filled, but asked me, “Do you play anything?” I said I play guitar and sing, and he […]

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Presented by Rolling Stone Country, The Change Project, BriteHeart, and HearthPR, Nashville will play host to the first ever Queer Roots showcase at AmericanaFest this year on Thursday, September 13, from 5-8pm at the Crying Wolf! Join a host of LGBTQ+ performers from the conference and from around the US, along with key Nashville non-profit […]

Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina. Over the past year, Patrick Haggerty ― frontman of Lavender Country, the first band to perform openly gay country music ― has been gallivanting across Trump country. The band’s most popular song, “Cryin’ These Cocksucking Tears,” might make those who voted for the new president-elect uncomfortable. It’s a bluntly sung story about […]

When Patrick Haggerty made the first openly gay country album in 1973, it wasn’t exactly a good career move. “It was an absolutely radical act,” he says. “I wasn’t interested in a career in music. I was born to kick open the closet door.” That album, the eponymously named Lavender Country, recorded by the band […]

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While Lavender Country were little known outside the Pacific Northwest and only released one self-distributed album, in their time they created a genuine cultural milestone — the first collection of openly gay-themed country songs. Lavender Country were the brainchild of Patrick Haggerty, who was born and raised in Dry Creek, a small rural community near […]